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Elle, grand morning here.
I am going looking for pillows today.
ASDA pillows, politely, are not quite what I expected!
Elle, it is your grandsons' holiday and they will be excited to be staying at Auld Granny's for a few days.
Let them be boys!
And they will love camping!
Grab some sausages and your hairdryer and off you pop to the woods with a babbling brook running close by.
When you go for water, always have a look upstream in case there may be a dead sheep in the water.
It would put a taste to the tea.
Happened to me a few times in the Highlands.
Water purification tablets would be sensible.
I have a few television programmes stored and am trying to work my way through them. One a day!
Today's is "Danny Boy. The Ballad that Bewitched the World".
So, in looking for pillows and Danny Boy that should fill the morning.
Enjoy the farm!

Hi rusty
You might not find this clue from today's Guardian difficult, then!

21 Behind — behind London it's sung out loud? (8)

Chris, well done!
You are as sharp as a tack this morning!
I think that will baffle a few.
Though, in my case, I would leave London out of it!
It is not by Puck by any chance?

No, it's Paul.

I like that Guardian clue. I have often fallen off the short steps when pruning the gum tree and landed on my Londonderry Air !

With me it would be my Derry Air.
It is often referred to to as Derry/Londonderry in the media in Ireland, which the locals have changed to Stroke City!

It think it was the late Gerry Anderson who first gave it the name "Stroke city"

He was certainly involved, Jazzgir!
It had got a bit tedious listening to the News etc with constant references to Derry/Londonderry.
I have just watched the programme and I enjoyed it.
John McCormack is my favourite singing it, with Elvis a close second.
And....the lyrics were written by an Englishman!
A solicitor. Fred Eatherly, I think he was called.

rusty
I remember seeing the programme a few years ago. I have always found the words very moving. It brings a tear to the eyes. I have a couple of versions on CD including Josef Locke, but one of my favourites is by Frank Patterson.

It has been "saved" in my Sky "planner" for a several months, I think.
Now, I don't know Frank Patterson?
Harry Belafonte has an excellent version, too.
I was impressed by boxer Barry McGuigan telling why his father sang it at his fights, as an alternative to an anthem.
Also the New York firemen insisting on singing it at the funerals of their comrades after 9/11.
The Archbishop of New York had said no, but they sang it at the funerals anyway. Quite right, too.
A lovely day up here, Jazzgirl. Supposed to be the coldest summer in Scotland for 43 years!
Seems OK to me!